Machabees
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The word is not found in Hebrew brew copies of the Scriptures, but is used in the Machabees, the original of which is in Greek, and in the New Testament.
From An Illustrated History of Ireland from AD 400 to 1800 by Cusack, Mary Frances
Viz., according to the computation followed by the Greeks; which was different from that of the Hebrews, followed by the writer of the first book of Machabees.
From The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 46: 2 Machabees The Challoner Revision by
Books of Piety adapted to wants, 19; of Machabees, same authority as other Scriptures, 214.
From The Faith of Our Fathers by Gibbons, James
West. the deliuerance of the Israelites 229, and in the fourth yeare of the Seleuciens, after which account the bookes of Machabees doo reckon, which began in the 14, after the death of Alexander.
From Chronicles (1 of 6): The Historie of England (3 of 8) by Holinshed, Raphael
An unexpected light shall arise by the means of the Machabees, when things shalll seem to be at the worst.
From The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 43: Zacharias The Challoner Revision by
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